The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History



Students at the Notre Dame School, New York, N.Y.






Learning Tools


Interpreting Primary Sources:

African Americans After Slavery

Indian Policy

The Changing Status of Women

The Farmers' Revolt

Responses to Industrialism

The Gospel of Wealth


Interpreting Statistics:

African Americans After Slavery - from Slavery to Freedom

African Americans After Slavery - Lynchings

The Changing Lives of American Women

The Changing Lives of American Farmers

Trends in American Farming

Farming

Industrialization - The Growth of Industry

Industrialization - American Labor

Industrialization - Changing Living Standards


Study Aids:

The Supreme Court and Civil Rights

Women's Suffrage Before 1920

New States in the Union


Recommended lesson plans:

Worker's Rights and Advances in Technology in the Nineteenth Century (4 lesson plans):
http://www.historynow.org/12_2006/teacher.html

Gilded Age Lesson Plans from the Illinois Historical Digitization Projects

http://dig.lib.niu.edu/teachers/gilded.html


Fact Check:

Quiz on the Gilded Age

Primary source documents with classroom questions :
The Hardships of the Poor and Immigrants

Timelines:

A timeline of the 19th century









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